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Health InSys (Health Inspection System)

Halima Khamis Salim Al Kahhali, Student, Muscat College,

P.O.Box:2910, PC 112, Ruwi,

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman,

S.Hameetha Begum Assistant Professor, Muscat College,

P.O.Box:2910, PC 112, Ruwi,

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman,

ABSTRACT

This project title Health InSys (Health Inspection System) is a

project to help the Municipality staff during their health

inspection visit. Commercial shop visits can be streamlined on

a monthly, weekly or daily basis and avoid creating havoc and

round trips. Municipality is responsible to check by visiting

the shops & the properties that its activities involve in foods

and public health to insuring the application of hygiene

conditions in Oman. I have used Microsoft .Net Framework,

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Android SDK, Eclipse and

MySql Database to develop my project. Here, I have two

modules Inspector Module and Administrator Module

according to the requirements. Inspector Module will use the

Android based Mobile to update the Inspection details and

Establishment details. In addition to that they can view the

Inspection schedule list, Establishment List and Inspection

List. Administrator Module will use the web based application

through which they can add, update, view and delete all the

Information and they can able to take necessary reports.

Keywords

Android, Health Inspection, Web API, ASP.Net MVC

1. INTRODUCTION This project title Health InSys (Health Inspection System) is

using Android Mobile based application to help the

Municipality staff during their health inspection visit and Web

based application to do all administrative task. The project is

designed to assist this process, at the same time it helps in

creating a uniform and systematic operation of these

inspections. The inspectors will be able to update the system

with current information; Top level management can take

appropriate actions accordingly. This is extremely useful for

users also for understanding the situation and taking actions in

an easy manner.

1.1 Background and Context Municipality monitors the successful operations of

commercial shops with regards to health and safety. Their

services include controlling the food and preventing cheating

in the foodstuff through the following actions:

Carrying out visiting & inspection for commercial shops

that deal with food & public hygiene.

Monitoring commercial shops that prepare or rendering

food to the public.

Writing minutes of violation, instructing the violating

places to present before the concern authority at the

municipality.

Closing the violating shop & stop practicing the activity.

Seizing the foodstuff doubtful of in its validity.

Supervising destruction of bad food stuff at the dump

site

Destruction of the invalid food during periodical official

visit.

1.2 Scope and Objectives The aim of the Health inspection system is to help the

inspectors to do their commercial visit activities with the

specific login to the system that ensures the secured access to

the users and provide more user friendly GUI by using the

mobile devices.

The overall objectives of this project are as follows:

To check the Quality process of the Commercial

shops on Inspector Field visit.

To be able to schedule the Inspector’s route.

To be able to receive updates for inspectors on each

inspection.

To identify the license expiry of the commercials

and give warnings for the same.

To provide secure access to the user.

To be accessed remotely by mobile devices.

Final System is capable of doing the following operations.

Helps in Quality checking process of the Inspector

on the field

To update the details of Establishment

Checks the Validity of Registration

Gives the details of the previous visit to the

commercial shops.

Inspector’s route is streamlined.

Helps to view the Inspector Schedule, Inspector

Visit details and Inspection details report

2. LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Inspect2GO3[1] This system is mobile based (android & iPad), and depends on

a server for actually processing the data. It runs a variety of

templates for inspections and is very agile. Inspect2GO offers

environmental health and safety (EHS/DOH) audit software

designed for municipal health inspections. Standard and

custom versions are available. This Health Inspections

includes Retail Food Establishment, Temporary Food Service

, Consumer Health, Playground, Childcare, Property, Pool,

Pest, Wholesale Food, Food Processing and Nursing Homes

[1].

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2.2 TTS Systems – Health Inspection

Department Software [2] TTS Systems provides advanced Health Inspection Software

that can be also utilized with their other software offering.

This system is windows based and supports a wide array of

requirements. This system is extensive. This Health

Department Inspection Software is specifically designed for

Public Health Departments. It helps to manage all aspects of

Health Department's Day To Day Operations [2]

2.3 InspectHub[3] Similar to TTS Systems, It provides smart and easy way to

manage the establishment Inspections. Every day new

establishments are auto-magically scheduled for each

inspector. Each establishment type can have its own

inspection form regardless if its a pool, restaurants or

hospitals. Events and festivities can be loads of fun, with the

help of scheduler.It helps reduce the time spent on managerial

duties and here less time means less users[3].

The development approach to the design and implementation

of the project can be explained with the following steps:

Analyze the system requirements, Design the project

requirements, Selection of appropriate technology, Design

database, Implementation and Testing.

3. METHODOLOGY

3.1 System Study During my System Study in Municipality, I have identified

they are currently doing these commercial visit activities by

using HTC application for doing health inspection activities.

3.1.1 Drawbacks of Existing System This Existing system which lacks integration and still partially

relies on the paper based system for information collection.

The inspectors are not updated immediately. The current

system wastes resources and Municipality staff felt that this is

not appropriate for their requirement. They need a new system

with advanced facility and portability. Hence, they would like

to develop this system by using android application which is

so popular now in all over the world and it will be very

convenient to use. Android applications are usually developed

in the Java programming language using the Android

Software Development Kit, but other development tools are

available. As of October 2012[update], more than 700,000

applications have been developed for Android, with over 25

billion downloads. The Android platform has also grown to

become a favorite among mobile developers. A June 2011

research indicated that over 67% of mobile developers used

the platform, at the time of publication. In Q2 2012; around

105 million units of Android smart phones were shipped

which acquires a total share of 68% in overall smart phones

sale till Q2 2012[4]

3.2 System Design The primary users of the system are

Inspectors

Supervisors /Administrators

Inspector will use the Android based mobile phone to update

the inspection details, Establishment details, to view the

schedule and they can able to view the and

Supervisors/Administrators will use web based system to

manage all the activities of Health inspection system such as

Edit, View, Delete and Print option. Structure chart of the

Health inspection is as shown in the below mentioned

Figure[1].

Figure 1. Structure Chart of Health Inspection System

3.3 Architectural Design

Figure 2. Architectural Design

3.4 Software Used The Health InSys project was developed using the following

software:

Technology: Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Microsoft .Net 4.5 Framework

Microsoft IIS Web Server

Android SDK

Java JRE/JDK

Eclipse IDE

Notepad ++

Backend MySQL

MySQL Workbench

3.4.1 Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 I’ve used Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 to develop the

Administrator Web System. I also utilize the use of Entity

framework into handling and managing my database

transactions. There a three projects that I developed using VS

Health Inspection

System

Administrator/

Supervisor

System Management

User Management

Violation Group

Violation Item

Actions

Establishment Details

Inspection Details

Inspector Schedule

Inspector –Android User

Interface

Add Inspection

Establishment List

Schedule List

Inspection List

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2012 for this project as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Solution Explorer of Visual Studio2012

3.4.1.1 DataHandlerLibrary This module is in-charge of handling all the database query

transactions. I used Entity framework and MySQL in this part.

The main purpose of this module is to act like a central

repository in getting and saving database records.

3.4.1.2 HealthInspectionSystemMVC This module will serve as the main administration or back

office module in creating users, viewing and editing of

establishments, checklists, and reports. This is creating using

ASP.NET MVC framework.

3.4.1.3 HealthInspectionSystemWebAPI This module serves as web service into providing data

services to the Android application. It uses the latest

Microsoft ASP.NET WEB API. The transactions are almost

similar to MVC except that instead of sending Views

(HTML), it communicates using JSON String.

3.5 Module Description

Health Inspection System (Health InSys) has two main

modules:

Inspector Module - Android Mobile User

Interface

Administrator/Supervisor Module – Web

Administration System

Inspector should use the android mobile user interface to

update the Inspection details of any Establishment.

Administrator/Supervisor will use web based application to

add, edit, delete and print the entire operation. Inspection

details will update through web API. Inspector should give a

user name and password.

3.6 Inspector Module – Android Mobile

User Interface Android Mobile user interface is used by the inspectors, those

who are incharge of inspection process. This System is highly

protected by having user name and password. Inspector in

charge of this unit play a key role in the proper functioning of

the system, and through this the Inspector should add the

inspection details according to the violation option given by

the administrator. Inspector should click on Health Inspection

Apps as shown below in Figure 4

Figure 4. Health Inspection App in Android Mobile

3.6.1 Login After clicking the Apps, The system will ask for username

and password for Authenticated user. The system will be able

to authenticate the users and forward them to their respective

access pages for the required functions. This system will

require the user to give a registered username and password.

If the credentials are incorrect then the user will be informed

of the same.

3.6.2 Inspector Menu in Android User Interface After entering the valid user name and password, a screen will

appear for the health inspection system and this system

contains four main options as following as shown in Figure 5:

New Inspection- To do the New Inspection.

Schedule – It will display the Schedule available for

the concerned inspector

Establishment List – It will display the Establishment

list available in the database

Inspection Report List- It will display the inspection

report date wise.

Figure 5. Health Inspection System Menu for Inspector

3.5.2.1 New Inspection Inspection Type

When we press new inspection option in the main menu, the

following screenshot in Figure 6 will appear for various

inspection types such as:

Routine Inspection- For Routine checking of any

Establishment

Reinspection – For Reinspection of any

Establishment

Preoperational – For Preoperational Inspection for

any establishment

Other (Any other types)

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Figure 6. Inspection Types

3.5.2.2 Establishment Inspector should select one of the options according to the

requirement as shown in Figure 7. After selection the

Inspection type. When you drag the health inspection page,

screen will appear to select the establishment from the list and

it will display current date and time in the screen. Inspector

should check the Permit/License Checklist.

Figure 7. To Add Inspection Details of Particular

Establishment

When Inspector want to select the particular establishment,

should click on establishment as shown in the Figure 6., It

will list all the names of Establishments available in the

database. Inspector can add Establishment from his mobile

phone and it can be added in the database by using this add

button.

3.5.2.3 Checklist Checklist contains a violation group and violation items.

Sources of Food, Food Protection, Personnel , Cleanliness,

Etc., are some examples of Violation group. Approved

source, wholesome ,non-adulterate , Unwrapped or potentially

hazardous food not reserve , Holds Valid ID Card , etc., are

Violation items. During the Inspection process, Inspector

should click the violation option as shown in the Figure8, if

the establishment violates the checklist. For example, AL

Aktham restaurant. Under the Personnel Violation, if the

personnel doesn’t have the valid Id card, Inspector should

check that option. Here, inspector has the place to write the

additional Comments. Then the system will calculate the

demerit score of the establishment .

Figure 8. Violation Checklist

If the Inspector want to generate the report, he should the

Generate button to create a report on Inspection. After

Clicking the generate option, Inspector will get the following

screenshots to review the report as shown in the Figure 9.

Figure 9. Screenshots of Review/Save

3.7 Administrator/Supervisor Module –

Web Administration System This module handles the duties of the system administrator

who is controlling the overall project and system. The module

is highly protected through the use of password given to the

limited number of the system administration people.

Administrator is responsible for adding, deleting, and

updating the establishments’ details to the system. Even

though system is fully automatic one, administrator has a key

role in the proper functioning of the system. In the case of any

functional problem of the system, administrator can play a

crucial role. Administrator can view all the details of by login

using his password such as checking the appointment details,

establishments’ list details, registration details and login

details.

After that, a Screen will appear for the Administration

Modules of health inspection system and this system contains

two main options as follows :

1) Actions: Inspection, Establishment List ,Schedule

2) System Management: Violation Group ,Violation

Items, User Management

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3.7.1 Inspection List Supervisor can view the inspection details list in the grid view

with the details of Inspection as shown in Figure 10. for

example Document No , Establishment Name / Department ,

Date/Time , Demerit score , Status and there is a option to

print and Delete. So administrator can view the inspection list

and can delete but he can 't edit details of any inspection .

Figure 10. Inspection List

Figure 11. Inspection Report of Particular Establishment

-Inspection List

3.7.1 Establishment List Here in Establishment List view, the details are shown in the

table with the following details Establishment Name ,

Operator Name , Status and there is two options to Edit and

Delete. Establishment

Here in Establishment List view, the details are shown in the

table with the following details Establishment Name ,

Operator Name , Status and there is two options to Edit and

Delete

3.7.2 Violation Group List To create violation group list , user should click on create new

and if they want to edit or delete, should click on the

appropriate option available on the screen

3.7.3 Violation Item List Violation Items can be listed in this form. Here user have a

option to edit, delete and it will be displayed in the Inspector

andorid mobile phone to do checking process.

Figure . 9. Create Violation Item

Figure 10. Violation Item listed for Inspector

4. CONCLUSION

4.1 Evaluation The system was developed to ease the work of municipality

staff especially for Inspector and supervisor. I have

concentrated on using the appropriate tools to develop this

system as per the user’s requirements. The system was

designed and implemented to satisfy user’s requirements.

Because it can be easily modify according to the user’s

changed requirements to ensure their satisfaction and system

quality. This system has been evaluated by the computing

department in the Municipality and they stated that it is a

well-designed system

4.2 Future Work Health Inspection System is a broad in nature. Here, I have

concentrated on only the Establishment Inspection. This can

be extended to all other areas of inspection. We can develop

this project to show the map of Inspector route in the mobile

for the future work. Inspector schedule is not integrated with

the inspection process. This can be done for the future work.

Uploading documents such as pictures or certifications can

also give clear picture to all users.

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5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Our thanks to the experts who have contributed towards

development of the template. I would like to thank you My

supervisor Ms.S.Hameetha Begum for her help to complete

my project successfully.

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